You Are What You Practice!!

The phrase for the week is "We Are What We Practice.”

What patterns emerge in your behavior time and time again that you wish were different? What if you are chronically late, for example? How do you change this behavior if you practicing being late everyday?--late to work, late to meetings, late to bed... It creates stress, embarrassment and shapes your personal brand reputation. Consider this process for changing this.

You must first realize the consequences of any poor behavior. If you’re in denial and haven’t acknowledged there is a real problem, ask those around you for feedback on the one thing you might change to enhance your personal brand. Until you can acknowledge your role in the behavior and want to change, it will continue.

Once you acknowledge there is a problem and you want to change it, you must interrupt the pattern in a dramatic way. Let’s use the example of being chronically late. To interrupt the pattern, you will replace it with a good behavior. You may set your alarm to ring 1 hour before your scheduled time to leave and begin to pack up and head out the door without doing anything else or looking at your watch.

It should be noted, that you may go through this cycle of change many times before you are successful. Provided you really want to change, there is a way: Practice...practice...practice!

I embrace the behavior changes I want to make.

#practicetimemanagement #practicenewbehavior #changeisgood

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